For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they have from the Jews;

so that no one should be shaken by these afflictions; for yourselves know that to this we are appointed;

The abundance

and they sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as any one had need.

Their deep

And a certain poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

And he looked up and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

Hearken, my beloved brethren. Did not God choose the poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

I know thy affliction and poverty, (but thou art rich,) and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

The riches

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

while ye are enriched in everything to all liberality, which worketh out through us thanksgiving to God;

Liberality

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and the sincerity which is of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

or he that exhorteth, to exhortation; he that giveth, let him do it with liberality; he that presideth over others, with diligence; he that doeth deeds of mercy, with cheerfulness.